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Chicago examiner vol xl no 73 a m monday Chicago march 17 1913 monday kejistered in priof onf tnt delivered by car.-'tr u s patent office rr\lv,c uiil v^lin 1 . - 0 centj pe ' r umm robbers get gems valued at 300,000 in raid on vault thieves dig way through cellar and steal half the valuables _ diamonds and jewels locked in big new york pawnshop police start hunt for monk east man when they hear he and two friends recently were freed from sing sing new york march 16 the finding of a strange key in the lock of a cellar door at go eldridge street to-night led to the discovery of the biggest robbery iu new tork city since the burglary of the man hattan bank more than twenty-five years ago the amount stolen is roughly esti mated to be between 2d0,000 and 300,000 while a half million dollars more in jewels and negotiable bonds was not taken prob ably because the safe blowers could not arty the plunder away three weeks ago deputy commissioner of police dougherty sent out a warning saying that william delasey alias monk kastman george hunt alias deaf j hunt and henry miller alias nanny miller were at large and supposed to be in new york it was admitted to-night that if the three artists mentioned had made the haul they mere entitled to go down in police annals along with lied leary jimmy hope and the others who made police history at the time of hie northampton and man hattan bank robberies . the place robbed is martin simons a son's pawnshop at 94 hester street si uons is the largest pawnbroker on the east side add with perhaps two excep 1 ions the largest in the city the prop i rty stolen for the most part was diamonds ! nd jewelry set with diamonds in the southwest corner of the building s a safe vault nine feet high twelve feet ong and twelve feet wide the walls are irick twenty-four inches trek railroad j nils elose together cover the top of the ault inside wood and steel finished the onstruction while great chilled doors pro ected the front in addition the place as protected jjy an electric burglar alarm inter through coal bin some lime between the closing saturday nd early to-night cracksmen looted the lace the part of the cellar used by a enement is separated from the pawushop ellar by a partition wall protected by ires the men after entering this base lenl climbed into a coal bin and scraped way the coal until they wwp three inches nrter the wires and then made a bole that dmitted k small man or boy or perhaps wo of them tnis placed them in the pawnshop cellar a flight of stabs from the cellar to the awnsliop above was ignored because it was wired by standing on things in lie pilar the men cut a 10-ie about fourteen inches snuare in the floor of the pawnshop anil they were then in the store a ladder ave them access to the top of the vault 4eavy girder removed the last girder of railroad iron support us the roof of the vault is almost a foot rorn the wall itself the two feci of tiortar and brick were gone through with case and the girder moved aside in the outheast corner of the vault a bole was nade evidently after several hours of hard work this aperture is nearly two feet o.usto the inner part of the vault was cut away and the strong box filed with ewels bonds and cash valued at more ban 800,000 was open to them in it clth a gas light to see what they well doing the man or men selected l make he entrance were at liberty to work at ' eisure the vault contained vl.tiiiii in cash 2,4001 u checks 180#00 in negotiable bends and 60,000 in notes the rest or the wealth was in pledges strong box torn open ie strong box was ripped open in this ox mere diamonds valued at 8,000 why hey were not taken is a mystery unless it as because by thai time the men were so ideu with stuff iliat they feared they light be unable to escape a 3,300 pearl klai-e and a necklace f diamonds and pearls valued at 1.0011 were left behind a diamond and pear lecklaee valued al 10,000 and diamonds o the value of l'.oix the property of mrs miilip rosenthal were taken mrs liosen hal is a relative of mr simons deaf-mutes in divorce suit wife admits other man's poetic language led her astray special cable to tlie examiner madrid march 10 a divorce suit in wnlcj husband wife the other man and j all witnesses arc deaf and dumb is being beard here several deaf mute professors are the interpreters the wife admitted to her husband that sic was led astray by the other man's eloquence and fasein tiuj poetic language | puritan in clutch of ice as a gale rages efforts of st joseph â€¢ mich life savers to aid futile driven into crevasse by terrific storm st joseph mich march 17 2 a m â€” the steamer puritan still is locked in ice but reports no immeiliate ilanjrer captain crawforil anil the crew are aboard the boat now lies about one mile off shore st joseph mich march 16 the steamer puritan of the graham & mor â– i ton line is caught in a gale and a great i i field of slush ice about n half mile oft this j j l i i a wireless report from captain crawford of the trapped vessel says the vessel is j walled ii ice but in no great danger efforts to reach the boat by tugs prove i unsuccessful the tugs being unable to make headway through the slush ice in places thirty and forty feet deep captain crawford has sent auother wire less message that the i'uritau weathered another gale that shot out of the west earlier in the evening and made the best time of the season running before it the vessel left Chicago this morning load"d with freight for icasterh points at midnight it had drifted two miles southwest of the port still in the clutch of the ice Chicago woman asks pennies for d a r i mrs anna wiilard block has a plan to pay for memorial hall in l short time : | washington march 16 mrs anna i wiilard block of Chicago has inaugurated i a plan of securing 1 cent a day from esch ; member of the t a r which in a year ' ; would pay off the debt on the society's -| beautiful memorial continental hall in washington the plan is receiving wide approval and at i ho d a r congress in april the movement will be officially set on foot the election of a president general can didates for which office are mrs william gumming story of new york city mrs john miller horton of buffalo and mrs charles m bryau of tennessee will oc i cupy much attention at the congress . bandits steal taxi hold up chauffeur i . i whole police force of city on watcfi j for new automobile bandits after robbery in the belief that a new auto bandit gang has started the entire police force ; of the city this morning sought two men | who last night stole a shaw taxicab i louis berg a chauffeur for the shaw livery was forced to surrender his car at sixty-seventh street and east end av enue at the point of a revolver by his two i passengers the two engaged the cab at the union : depot and ordered him to go to the south shore country club jitter the cab left jackson park one of them ordered berg i i tup and when he looked back be was confronted by a revolver neither al tempted to rob the chauffeur but ordered him to leave the car and one took his seat and drove off longfellow grandson street car conductor i | edmund trowbridge dana of ethi cal marriage fame living in 1.50 a week room boston march l(i edmund trow bridge dana grandson of the poet t.ong feilnw master of arts and bachelor of arts from harvard is working as a conductor for the middlesex iv boston street rail way f/ompauy at twenty-one cents an ! ho>nr and living in a 1.50 a week room 1 tile former harvard athlete whose eth ii-al marriage last lime to jessie holliday i aroused much discussion because the bride ' wrote the ritual denies the reports of an i estrangement conductor lianas father richard h i dana is one of the wealthiest citizens of j j canibrid e pope plans jubilee aug 31 to sept 8 i sixteenth centenary of edict of milan will call many catholics to romi special cable to tlie examiner ' rome march id a great gathering of koiiian catholics is expected this year to celebrate the sixteenth centenary of the edict or milan whereby the emperor ( histamine proclaimed lie introduction of christianity throughout the icoman em piro the pope ha decided to proclaim a i j jubilee lasting from august 1 to septeni i ' ber 8 schwab bans sunday workh ' south bethlehem pa march 1(5 | e'resldenl charles m schwab issued strict i orders to day thai there should be no more i sundav work at the plant of the bethlehem ,' steel company Â»] cy bond saves 2 frozen together in lake pistakee capsized mile from shore men ! clasp hands and drift senseless to beach revived after four hours i j j c l boecklin and joseph frana are pulled from water at point of death the lives of two men were saved at lake i'istakee yesterday because their bodies froze together a mile or more from the shore jf the lake where they were duck hunting the open boat copsized stretching out their arms to each other across the boat bottom the men clasped bands then while they lost consciousness in the bitter cold ice formed over their hands and arms so that they could not drop from the boat thus they drifted near the shore and anally were rescued one of them was charles lawrence koecklin of the firm of boecklin brothers commercial artists 417 north dearborn street Chicago the other was joseph frana whose home is on the shore of the lake herman mathesen proprietor of a hotel bearing bis name at the lake shore was walking along the shore with jacob lar son a boat builder larson saw the up turned row boat frozen bodies re-overed that's queer he si id there's some thing fastened lo the brat in a few minutes the boat came nearer drifting fast it's a man exclaimed larson its two men said mathesen they ran to 11 nearoy boathouse and set forth in another row boat it was with difficulty after the capsized boat hail been towed ashore that the frozen bodies were released from the boat bottom it seemed certain that both men were dead said mathesen afterward the parts of their body that had not been sub merged were covered with ice their heads were great cakes of ice that formed from the roots of their hair the splashing wa ter had frozen almost as it fell on them doctors work four hours i the victims were taken to the mathesen hotel where physicians worked on them four hours before consciousness was re stored there were no symptoms of drown ing but the men were almost frozen to death at midnight it was reported that both will probably recover unless pneu monia attacks them boecklin and frana set forth after lunch eon to hum ducks a suddeii squall arose on the lake and the little craft became un manageable that much the observed facts indicate neither of the men has been able t'uus far to tell the story in greater detail it is supposed they struggled at first to light their boat then as they weak ened merely clung to it whether they deliberately clung to each other in the expectation of escaping drown ing by freezing no one knows but that is what happened woman swept over niagara to her death | hundreds of sightseers look on un able to aid her as she disre gards warning sign buffalo x v march ic josephine kittlch was swept over the american fails while sightseeing in i una park niagara falls today many saw her slip into the rushing waters above the cataract nut none was able to aid tin reforming of the ice bridge at the falls attracted hundreds to the place in cluding miss kittilch and her sister and niece the women wandered onto i.una island miss kittitch pointed to a sign i earning visitors to keep away she laughed and started to walk along the ; bank i suddenly the others heard a scream and jsaw the woman throw up her hands and disappear in the water the two other women became hysterical and sought to leap into the surging waters after their companion but were restrained uncle joe gannon leaves washington ! when i lose interest in politics i will be dead s\ays former speaker washington march 16 joseph gur ney cannon left for bis home in danville 111 today the former ezhr of tlie house was unattended and his leave-tak ing was extremely quiet when asked if lie would continue in politics he said when i lose interest iu politics you can 1 h i'll be dead l'ncle doe said that some of his family were planning a round-the-world trip but she would not be one of the party policeman kills brother'swife made son thief ! calls woman crime vampire in confession after giving himself up slain as she begged mercy â€” â€” joseph smith charges victim lured members of his fam ily to ruin poi iceman joseph smith of the stock yards station yesterday shot and killed mrs rose smith thirty-five years old wife of his brother in her home 230 west twenty-third street and then walked down to the twenty-second street station and gave himself up smith was bleeding from a bullet wound in the left wrist he made two state ments to the police one withiu au hour after the sbootiug the other last night which coirfliet in his first statement smith declared he had killed the woman who had ruined his son and disgraced bis familv thomas smith his brother and her husband was an ex-convict charles smith twenty-five 1 years old son of joseph smith is now a prisoner in the county jail awaiting trin on a charge of larceny his eldest daugh 1 ter but policeman smith refused to talk about her calls victim a vampire describing the dead woman as a sort of vampire criminal smith declared that she fascinated members of his family with glowing accounts of the beautiful things they could buy if they executed her plans and so led them on and on through the mazes and pitfalls of petty crime until they were as fast in her clutches as the fly in a spider's web the woman was a devil smith said i couldn't stand it any longer my friends began to whisfier and point at me i just had to go and kill her he drew a great sobbing breath now i feel like a man again he said simply i have avenged my family j and that was all he would say the shooting occurred yesterday morn ing in a two-story frame building owned by smith's mother mrs delia smith who has lived in the neighborhood for more than twenty-five years the dead woman lived on the lower floor the elder woman on the upper she said she saw her son enter the flat below about 10:30 o'clock later she heard angry voices and a woman pleading and crying but she was certain she heard no shots woman once arrested smith found bis sister-in-law in her kitchen getting dinner ready and he sat down beside the glowing range she told him that her two children cecelia twelve years old and john ten years old were at the home of her mother mrs frank martiuek 2414 princeton avenue theu they begin jo talk about the ar rest of smith's son charles which oc curred last friday on a charge of lar ceny at that tinieimrs rose smith was arrested with young smith on charges of receiving stolen property in her house l had been found three trunks containing . about 1,004 worth of clothing and jew elry which had been taken december 31 j from the express office of joseph doyle i at south state and seventeenth streets mrs smith was released on 1,300 bouds | friday night j at this instant policeman smith leaned forward his face dark do you know be said i believe you turned the kid i ill you " the woman swung around from the 1 sink ain't you the joker joe she laughed uneasily smith stood up joker eh lie said ; and his revolver flashed into bis hand | shots follow laugh j they stood a little apart a smile , i curled on the woman's full red lips the man's face worked nervously she knew he'd been drinking she laughed in his face in his fury the first two shots were clean misses the woman fled into a cor ner and smith fired again she groveled i on her knees smith stuod over her x grasping the back of her neck with his left iiand then he s fired three shots in rapid succession into . it be woman's head behind the right car j surrenders to police smith made a second statement to lieu tenant russell last night which follows i am fifty years old and uve ai 043d south la salle street with my family there are seven children i have been on â– the force twenty-one years [ went off duty this morning at fifty-second and hal i i sted strec-ts and went home after break ' i last 1 went to jlrs smith's house en ' ' i tering by the back way she saw me and threw a sugar bowl at lne i asked for ; my sou charley she told me to get out i j just then a small man run out of a back i i room and seeing nie in full uniform he drew a revolver and fired four shot i j | drew my gun and the woman ran between ji 1 don't remember anything after tha [ after mrs smith's body was taken to j angelloek's undertaking rooms 2111 west i twenty-third street detectives searched < her flat and seized several dozen toirels ami pairs of women's silk hosiery which j they bel-evc has beeu stolen from down j jw.wuj stores â– .Â«.â– --â– â€¢ 1 girl poisoned on ship ate candy sent chum case baffles the police parents say frances leslie re ceived death gift sent friend whose name she took special cable to the examiner london march i(s with the arrival at southampton of the white star liner i oceanic bearing the body of a girl pas i senger at first thought to be that of anna wilson of new york a trans-atlantic poi son mystery of startling proportions was revealed to-day the body of the girl to-day was identified as that of frances leslie a chorus girl who was coming here to join the ziegfeld's american lievue which corresponds to the tollies of 1912 in the laired states she was accompanied by bessie clifford another show girl booked for the same production frances leslie off the stage is frances leslie schniilz she is thonght to have beeu the victim of poisoned candy sent on hoard lie steamer at new york as a present to the girl whose name she assumed scot land yard and southampton police worked with the steamship officials here all day trying to solve the mystery of the girl's death the london police are uot inclined to ac cept as final the report by dr i s french the ship's surgeon that miss les lie died from suffocation as the result of u seizure in the uature of au epileptic attack the formal inquest will be held to-mor row and the authorities have asked the dead gill's friends to be present daughter murdered say parents new york march 16 the parents of l't-ances leslie the chorus girl who known on the ship's passenger list as anon wilson died in her cabin on the white star liner oceanic are convinced that their daughter was murdered henry schmitz the father telegraphed to secretary of state hryau and cabled the american consul at southampton to day asking their aid in solving the mys tery it is the belief of the girl's family that she was the victim of poisoned candy sent to the steamer in the name of anna wilson . they declare that the girl bad wilson girls at club father declined to join 1 i president's daughters are guests of honor at chevy chase while , membership hangs fire washington march ia the misses ! wilson will be hie guests ol holier at a inner dance at the chevy chase club to | morrow night a fen days before bis in , auguration president wilson declined bon \ oriry membership in the exclusive club a social obligation recognized ' by other j executives the tresident's t'aughteis however are â– looking forward to the dinner dam e to be | j enjoyed as oue of tiie lirst social enter j tamntents thej are to be the guests of i j miss kluaoeth hornr who shared a sto j dio witli mus j_rgsÂ»et wilson in sew ; vor jk j president wilson auni m-<d that aw i would like \<> join ihe dub as a rcg^me paid member no action has been mm Chicago struck by brief blizzard street car men try to kidnap boy hurt during heavy snowstorm a nfteeii-miunte blizzard struck Chicago late yesterday afternoon executed a double twist about the city tied up downtown traffic and elevated traius blinded pe destrians and endangered lives and stopped as suddenly as it came the blizzard came in the teeth of a lake gale one serious street car accident was re : ported to the police while two boys wal i ter earle and elmer zaleski fifteen years i old living in desplaines narrowly es | caped with their lives when their sail-i ' boat on the desplaines river capsized â– they were thrown into the water but reach the shore through the clouds of i snow and roaring water about them the street car accident brought out the gray ghost of the Chicago railways company a big automobile with an am bulance crew it met defeat yesterday i when it attempted to carry away a boy who had been injured by a street car the clash came when i.adislaw kaiina four years old 1u43 throop street was struck by an eastbound ear at west i eighteenth and throop streets sustaining i a fracture of the skull the police finally took the boy home iu the patrol wagon fair weather is the forecast for to-day j wilh unsettled and warmer conditions to morrow lewis pledged enough votes 10 win by e new managers john mccarthy and edward m allen declare bull moose and republican ballots will end 2 months deadlock to-morrow chicagoans latest campaign di rectors are expected to bring crisis in senatorial tangle when legislature reconvenes sullivan holds sunday conference with his aids but refuses to reveal plans for electing john barton payne to the long term ' tf t ith the aid of develop la merits to be expected â„¢ " within the next two days enough votes will be obtained from bull moose or > republican legislators to elect colonel james hamilton lewis to the long term senatorship when the legislature meets next tuesday this statement was made yester | day by john mccarthy immediately i after he and mayor edward m allen | of toliet had been authorized to act , as ct'.uiy.'ign managers for colonel lewis in the . r6t to be made this week at springfield for die election of the primary nominee of i.he illi nois democracy to the united states senatorship for which be was name by the democratic voters the announcement that mccarthy and allen had been appointed to man age the lewis campaign was re " garded as heralding the real ci isifl in the tense situation at spriu^iieid it indicated to many the beginning of the end and the near approach of the breaking period in the deadlock which has paralysed the general assem t bly"s usefulness for nearly two months breach with sullivan it was asserted by friends of colouel lewis that mccarthy and allen despite their former alliances with itoger l sull ivan's faction of the democracy are repri sentatives of the progressive democracy in their cainraign and thai their appoint ment was distasteful to sullivan although mccarthy was the bead of sullivan's managing committee for years he broke with the gas manufacturer when ' tile majority of the sullivan leaders re i fused t support carter 11 harrison for jmiyor after harrison bad won the pen jcrstic nomination riii breach between mccarthy ami still '. iviin has never been mended mayor allen tli second manager of die lewis campaign is a candidate for an important appoint : in it ai the liaids of governor dunne and ' ; is said to be pledged to do all in his power 1 to elect colonel lewis a report that secretary of slate bryan lit bis speech before the legislature to . i morrow or at soon other place during bis visit in this state will counsel the aids i j tracking of lewis in racnr of brim uartoli , i payne who i roger sullivan's candidate â– ; was scout i by mccarthy i lewis choice of voters uf course mr ijryun will be tree \<< j lake any lice be may choose said lc jcartby but we consider it unlikely that ' 1 he will advise the sidetracking of colonel lewis in favor of any other candidal e * whether avowed or secret Â» 7 â€¢ the democratic voter f Illinois have i made colonel lewis their candidate for i the long-term senatorship and it is tin 1 thinkable that any democratic leader ' however eminent in the party or iu state ' manship ill advise the ignoring of the popular verdict and the election of some body whom the people had no opportunity â– to indorse or reject at the polls â– every friend of colonel lewis and every democrat who believes in the role lot the people will oxpect the legislature ijto d its duty ibis week and elect colonel lewis to the senatorial seat which won iu a primary campaign umoui democrats of the state we : the senatorial primary for lewis binding on the general hssembbj as the i presidential primary was binding â€¢' the delegates to national convention sullivan backs payne it became know a barton payne was picked by llogei liviin for the long-term benarorsulp meeting held in the lioiel la sell â€¢ j in the chicagc v i-it of i 1 1 hnnn mccombs a few week ago at meetiu^y mccombs was an invitod flÃŸii^^m is that payne was continued or 4th page 4th column get out of the rut take ad vantage of the chances offered you in the want ad columns of the examiner every kdav *â€” pj â€” iociation of american adver e^lfltisers lias examined and certified to hjlp'tlie circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained in the association's report only are guaranteed association of american advertisers m s.o whitehall bldg _â– .. t city Chicago and vicinity fair monday followed by i jbis~~2to increasing cloudiness at s-^fcx^ms night tuesday unsettled and warmer ihr^v^sin it kange o'f temperatures fester \(( yÂ£=six v highest 31 Â» s^x enis^j lowest ie i y jby average u '

Chicago examiner vol xl no 73 a m monday Chicago march 17 1913 monday kejistered in priof onf tnt delivered by car.-'tr u s patent office rr\lv,c uiil v^lin 1 . - 0 centj pe ' r umm robbers get gems valued at 300,000 in raid on vault thieves dig way through cellar and steal half the valuables _ diamonds and jewels locked in big new york pawnshop police start hunt for monk east man when they hear he and two friends recently were freed from sing sing new york march 16 the finding of a strange key in the lock of a cellar door at go eldridge street to-night led to the discovery of the biggest robbery iu new tork city since the burglary of the man hattan bank more than twenty-five years ago the amount stolen is roughly esti mated to be between 2d0,000 and 300,000 while a half million dollars more in jewels and negotiable bonds was not taken prob ably because the safe blowers could not arty the plunder away three weeks ago deputy commissioner of police dougherty sent out a warning saying that william delasey alias monk kastman george hunt alias deaf j hunt and henry miller alias nanny miller were at large and supposed to be in new york it was admitted to-night that if the three artists mentioned had made the haul they mere entitled to go down in police annals along with lied leary jimmy hope and the others who made police history at the time of hie northampton and man hattan bank robberies . the place robbed is martin simons a son's pawnshop at 94 hester street si uons is the largest pawnbroker on the east side add with perhaps two excep 1 ions the largest in the city the prop i rty stolen for the most part was diamonds ! nd jewelry set with diamonds in the southwest corner of the building s a safe vault nine feet high twelve feet ong and twelve feet wide the walls are irick twenty-four inches trek railroad j nils elose together cover the top of the ault inside wood and steel finished the onstruction while great chilled doors pro ected the front in addition the place as protected jjy an electric burglar alarm inter through coal bin some lime between the closing saturday nd early to-night cracksmen looted the lace the part of the cellar used by a enement is separated from the pawushop ellar by a partition wall protected by ires the men after entering this base lenl climbed into a coal bin and scraped way the coal until they wwp three inches nrter the wires and then made a bole that dmitted k small man or boy or perhaps wo of them tnis placed them in the pawnshop cellar a flight of stabs from the cellar to the awnsliop above was ignored because it was wired by standing on things in lie pilar the men cut a 10-ie about fourteen inches snuare in the floor of the pawnshop anil they were then in the store a ladder ave them access to the top of the vault 4eavy girder removed the last girder of railroad iron support us the roof of the vault is almost a foot rorn the wall itself the two feci of tiortar and brick were gone through with case and the girder moved aside in the outheast corner of the vault a bole was nade evidently after several hours of hard work this aperture is nearly two feet o.usto the inner part of the vault was cut away and the strong box filed with ewels bonds and cash valued at more ban 800,000 was open to them in it clth a gas light to see what they well doing the man or men selected l make he entrance were at liberty to work at ' eisure the vault contained vl.tiiiii in cash 2,4001 u checks 180#00 in negotiable bends and 60,000 in notes the rest or the wealth was in pledges strong box torn open ie strong box was ripped open in this ox mere diamonds valued at 8,000 why hey were not taken is a mystery unless it as because by thai time the men were so ideu with stuff iliat they feared they light be unable to escape a 3,300 pearl klai-e and a necklace f diamonds and pearls valued at 1.0011 were left behind a diamond and pear lecklaee valued al 10,000 and diamonds o the value of l'.oix the property of mrs miilip rosenthal were taken mrs liosen hal is a relative of mr simons deaf-mutes in divorce suit wife admits other man's poetic language led her astray special cable to tlie examiner madrid march 10 a divorce suit in wnlcj husband wife the other man and j all witnesses arc deaf and dumb is being beard here several deaf mute professors are the interpreters the wife admitted to her husband that sic was led astray by the other man's eloquence and fasein tiuj poetic language | puritan in clutch of ice as a gale rages efforts of st joseph â€¢ mich life savers to aid futile driven into crevasse by terrific storm st joseph mich march 17 2 a m â€” the steamer puritan still is locked in ice but reports no immeiliate ilanjrer captain crawforil anil the crew are aboard the boat now lies about one mile off shore st joseph mich march 16 the steamer puritan of the graham & mor â– i ton line is caught in a gale and a great i i field of slush ice about n half mile oft this j j l i i a wireless report from captain crawford of the trapped vessel says the vessel is j walled ii ice but in no great danger efforts to reach the boat by tugs prove i unsuccessful the tugs being unable to make headway through the slush ice in places thirty and forty feet deep captain crawford has sent auother wire less message that the i'uritau weathered another gale that shot out of the west earlier in the evening and made the best time of the season running before it the vessel left Chicago this morning load"d with freight for icasterh points at midnight it had drifted two miles southwest of the port still in the clutch of the ice Chicago woman asks pennies for d a r i mrs anna wiilard block has a plan to pay for memorial hall in l short time : | washington march 16 mrs anna i wiilard block of Chicago has inaugurated i a plan of securing 1 cent a day from esch ; member of the t a r which in a year ' ; would pay off the debt on the society's -| beautiful memorial continental hall in washington the plan is receiving wide approval and at i ho d a r congress in april the movement will be officially set on foot the election of a president general can didates for which office are mrs william gumming story of new york city mrs john miller horton of buffalo and mrs charles m bryau of tennessee will oc i cupy much attention at the congress . bandits steal taxi hold up chauffeur i . i whole police force of city on watcfi j for new automobile bandits after robbery in the belief that a new auto bandit gang has started the entire police force ; of the city this morning sought two men | who last night stole a shaw taxicab i louis berg a chauffeur for the shaw livery was forced to surrender his car at sixty-seventh street and east end av enue at the point of a revolver by his two i passengers the two engaged the cab at the union : depot and ordered him to go to the south shore country club jitter the cab left jackson park one of them ordered berg i i tup and when he looked back be was confronted by a revolver neither al tempted to rob the chauffeur but ordered him to leave the car and one took his seat and drove off longfellow grandson street car conductor i | edmund trowbridge dana of ethi cal marriage fame living in 1.50 a week room boston march l(i edmund trow bridge dana grandson of the poet t.ong feilnw master of arts and bachelor of arts from harvard is working as a conductor for the middlesex iv boston street rail way f/ompauy at twenty-one cents an ! ho>nr and living in a 1.50 a week room 1 tile former harvard athlete whose eth ii-al marriage last lime to jessie holliday i aroused much discussion because the bride ' wrote the ritual denies the reports of an i estrangement conductor lianas father richard h i dana is one of the wealthiest citizens of j j canibrid e pope plans jubilee aug 31 to sept 8 i sixteenth centenary of edict of milan will call many catholics to romi special cable to tlie examiner ' rome march id a great gathering of koiiian catholics is expected this year to celebrate the sixteenth centenary of the edict or milan whereby the emperor ( histamine proclaimed lie introduction of christianity throughout the icoman em piro the pope ha decided to proclaim a i j jubilee lasting from august 1 to septeni i ' ber 8 schwab bans sunday workh ' south bethlehem pa march 1(5 | e'resldenl charles m schwab issued strict i orders to day thai there should be no more i sundav work at the plant of the bethlehem ,' steel company Â»] cy bond saves 2 frozen together in lake pistakee capsized mile from shore men ! clasp hands and drift senseless to beach revived after four hours i j j c l boecklin and joseph frana are pulled from water at point of death the lives of two men were saved at lake i'istakee yesterday because their bodies froze together a mile or more from the shore jf the lake where they were duck hunting the open boat copsized stretching out their arms to each other across the boat bottom the men clasped bands then while they lost consciousness in the bitter cold ice formed over their hands and arms so that they could not drop from the boat thus they drifted near the shore and anally were rescued one of them was charles lawrence koecklin of the firm of boecklin brothers commercial artists 417 north dearborn street Chicago the other was joseph frana whose home is on the shore of the lake herman mathesen proprietor of a hotel bearing bis name at the lake shore was walking along the shore with jacob lar son a boat builder larson saw the up turned row boat frozen bodies re-overed that's queer he si id there's some thing fastened lo the brat in a few minutes the boat came nearer drifting fast it's a man exclaimed larson its two men said mathesen they ran to 11 nearoy boathouse and set forth in another row boat it was with difficulty after the capsized boat hail been towed ashore that the frozen bodies were released from the boat bottom it seemed certain that both men were dead said mathesen afterward the parts of their body that had not been sub merged were covered with ice their heads were great cakes of ice that formed from the roots of their hair the splashing wa ter had frozen almost as it fell on them doctors work four hours i the victims were taken to the mathesen hotel where physicians worked on them four hours before consciousness was re stored there were no symptoms of drown ing but the men were almost frozen to death at midnight it was reported that both will probably recover unless pneu monia attacks them boecklin and frana set forth after lunch eon to hum ducks a suddeii squall arose on the lake and the little craft became un manageable that much the observed facts indicate neither of the men has been able t'uus far to tell the story in greater detail it is supposed they struggled at first to light their boat then as they weak ened merely clung to it whether they deliberately clung to each other in the expectation of escaping drown ing by freezing no one knows but that is what happened woman swept over niagara to her death | hundreds of sightseers look on un able to aid her as she disre gards warning sign buffalo x v march ic josephine kittlch was swept over the american fails while sightseeing in i una park niagara falls today many saw her slip into the rushing waters above the cataract nut none was able to aid tin reforming of the ice bridge at the falls attracted hundreds to the place in cluding miss kittilch and her sister and niece the women wandered onto i.una island miss kittitch pointed to a sign i earning visitors to keep away she laughed and started to walk along the ; bank i suddenly the others heard a scream and jsaw the woman throw up her hands and disappear in the water the two other women became hysterical and sought to leap into the surging waters after their companion but were restrained uncle joe gannon leaves washington ! when i lose interest in politics i will be dead s\ays former speaker washington march 16 joseph gur ney cannon left for bis home in danville 111 today the former ezhr of tlie house was unattended and his leave-tak ing was extremely quiet when asked if lie would continue in politics he said when i lose interest iu politics you can 1 h i'll be dead l'ncle doe said that some of his family were planning a round-the-world trip but she would not be one of the party policeman kills brother'swife made son thief ! calls woman crime vampire in confession after giving himself up slain as she begged mercy â€” â€” joseph smith charges victim lured members of his fam ily to ruin poi iceman joseph smith of the stock yards station yesterday shot and killed mrs rose smith thirty-five years old wife of his brother in her home 230 west twenty-third street and then walked down to the twenty-second street station and gave himself up smith was bleeding from a bullet wound in the left wrist he made two state ments to the police one withiu au hour after the sbootiug the other last night which coirfliet in his first statement smith declared he had killed the woman who had ruined his son and disgraced bis familv thomas smith his brother and her husband was an ex-convict charles smith twenty-five 1 years old son of joseph smith is now a prisoner in the county jail awaiting trin on a charge of larceny his eldest daugh 1 ter but policeman smith refused to talk about her calls victim a vampire describing the dead woman as a sort of vampire criminal smith declared that she fascinated members of his family with glowing accounts of the beautiful things they could buy if they executed her plans and so led them on and on through the mazes and pitfalls of petty crime until they were as fast in her clutches as the fly in a spider's web the woman was a devil smith said i couldn't stand it any longer my friends began to whisfier and point at me i just had to go and kill her he drew a great sobbing breath now i feel like a man again he said simply i have avenged my family j and that was all he would say the shooting occurred yesterday morn ing in a two-story frame building owned by smith's mother mrs delia smith who has lived in the neighborhood for more than twenty-five years the dead woman lived on the lower floor the elder woman on the upper she said she saw her son enter the flat below about 10:30 o'clock later she heard angry voices and a woman pleading and crying but she was certain she heard no shots woman once arrested smith found bis sister-in-law in her kitchen getting dinner ready and he sat down beside the glowing range she told him that her two children cecelia twelve years old and john ten years old were at the home of her mother mrs frank martiuek 2414 princeton avenue theu they begin jo talk about the ar rest of smith's son charles which oc curred last friday on a charge of lar ceny at that tinieimrs rose smith was arrested with young smith on charges of receiving stolen property in her house l had been found three trunks containing . about 1,004 worth of clothing and jew elry which had been taken december 31 j from the express office of joseph doyle i at south state and seventeenth streets mrs smith was released on 1,300 bouds | friday night j at this instant policeman smith leaned forward his face dark do you know be said i believe you turned the kid i ill you " the woman swung around from the 1 sink ain't you the joker joe she laughed uneasily smith stood up joker eh lie said ; and his revolver flashed into bis hand | shots follow laugh j they stood a little apart a smile , i curled on the woman's full red lips the man's face worked nervously she knew he'd been drinking she laughed in his face in his fury the first two shots were clean misses the woman fled into a cor ner and smith fired again she groveled i on her knees smith stuod over her x grasping the back of her neck with his left iiand then he s fired three shots in rapid succession into . it be woman's head behind the right car j surrenders to police smith made a second statement to lieu tenant russell last night which follows i am fifty years old and uve ai 043d south la salle street with my family there are seven children i have been on â– the force twenty-one years [ went off duty this morning at fifty-second and hal i i sted strec-ts and went home after break ' i last 1 went to jlrs smith's house en ' ' i tering by the back way she saw me and threw a sugar bowl at lne i asked for ; my sou charley she told me to get out i j just then a small man run out of a back i i room and seeing nie in full uniform he drew a revolver and fired four shot i j | drew my gun and the woman ran between ji 1 don't remember anything after tha [ after mrs smith's body was taken to j angelloek's undertaking rooms 2111 west i twenty-third street detectives searched < her flat and seized several dozen toirels ami pairs of women's silk hosiery which j they bel-evc has beeu stolen from down j jw.wuj stores â– .Â«.â– --â– â€¢ 1 girl poisoned on ship ate candy sent chum case baffles the police parents say frances leslie re ceived death gift sent friend whose name she took special cable to the examiner london march i(s with the arrival at southampton of the white star liner i oceanic bearing the body of a girl pas i senger at first thought to be that of anna wilson of new york a trans-atlantic poi son mystery of startling proportions was revealed to-day the body of the girl to-day was identified as that of frances leslie a chorus girl who was coming here to join the ziegfeld's american lievue which corresponds to the tollies of 1912 in the laired states she was accompanied by bessie clifford another show girl booked for the same production frances leslie off the stage is frances leslie schniilz she is thonght to have beeu the victim of poisoned candy sent on hoard lie steamer at new york as a present to the girl whose name she assumed scot land yard and southampton police worked with the steamship officials here all day trying to solve the mystery of the girl's death the london police are uot inclined to ac cept as final the report by dr i s french the ship's surgeon that miss les lie died from suffocation as the result of u seizure in the uature of au epileptic attack the formal inquest will be held to-mor row and the authorities have asked the dead gill's friends to be present daughter murdered say parents new york march 16 the parents of l't-ances leslie the chorus girl who known on the ship's passenger list as anon wilson died in her cabin on the white star liner oceanic are convinced that their daughter was murdered henry schmitz the father telegraphed to secretary of state hryau and cabled the american consul at southampton to day asking their aid in solving the mys tery it is the belief of the girl's family that she was the victim of poisoned candy sent to the steamer in the name of anna wilson . they declare that the girl bad wilson girls at club father declined to join 1 i president's daughters are guests of honor at chevy chase while , membership hangs fire washington march ia the misses ! wilson will be hie guests ol holier at a inner dance at the chevy chase club to | morrow night a fen days before bis in , auguration president wilson declined bon \ oriry membership in the exclusive club a social obligation recognized ' by other j executives the tresident's t'aughteis however are â– looking forward to the dinner dam e to be | j enjoyed as oue of tiie lirst social enter j tamntents thej are to be the guests of i j miss kluaoeth hornr who shared a sto j dio witli mus j_rgsÂ»et wilson in sew ; vor jk j president wilson auni m- join ihe dub as a rcg^me paid member no action has been mm Chicago struck by brief blizzard street car men try to kidnap boy hurt during heavy snowstorm a nfteeii-miunte blizzard struck Chicago late yesterday afternoon executed a double twist about the city tied up downtown traffic and elevated traius blinded pe destrians and endangered lives and stopped as suddenly as it came the blizzard came in the teeth of a lake gale one serious street car accident was re : ported to the police while two boys wal i ter earle and elmer zaleski fifteen years i old living in desplaines narrowly es | caped with their lives when their sail-i ' boat on the desplaines river capsized â– they were thrown into the water but reach the shore through the clouds of i snow and roaring water about them the street car accident brought out the gray ghost of the Chicago railways company a big automobile with an am bulance crew it met defeat yesterday i when it attempted to carry away a boy who had been injured by a street car the clash came when i.adislaw kaiina four years old 1u43 throop street was struck by an eastbound ear at west i eighteenth and throop streets sustaining i a fracture of the skull the police finally took the boy home iu the patrol wagon fair weather is the forecast for to-day j wilh unsettled and warmer conditions to morrow lewis pledged enough votes 10 win by e new managers john mccarthy and edward m allen declare bull moose and republican ballots will end 2 months deadlock to-morrow chicagoans latest campaign di rectors are expected to bring crisis in senatorial tangle when legislature reconvenes sullivan holds sunday conference with his aids but refuses to reveal plans for electing john barton payne to the long term ' tf t ith the aid of develop la merits to be expected â„¢ " within the next two days enough votes will be obtained from bull moose or > republican legislators to elect colonel james hamilton lewis to the long term senatorship when the legislature meets next tuesday this statement was made yester | day by john mccarthy immediately i after he and mayor edward m allen | of toliet had been authorized to act , as ct'.uiy.'ign managers for colonel lewis in the . r6t to be made this week at springfield for die election of the primary nominee of i.he illi nois democracy to the united states senatorship for which be was name by the democratic voters the announcement that mccarthy and allen had been appointed to man age the lewis campaign was re " garded as heralding the real ci isifl in the tense situation at spriu^iieid it indicated to many the beginning of the end and the near approach of the breaking period in the deadlock which has paralysed the general assem t bly"s usefulness for nearly two months breach with sullivan it was asserted by friends of colouel lewis that mccarthy and allen despite their former alliances with itoger l sull ivan's faction of the democracy are repri sentatives of the progressive democracy in their cainraign and thai their appoint ment was distasteful to sullivan although mccarthy was the bead of sullivan's managing committee for years he broke with the gas manufacturer when ' tile majority of the sullivan leaders re i fused t support carter 11 harrison for jmiyor after harrison bad won the pen jcrstic nomination riii breach between mccarthy ami still '. iviin has never been mended mayor allen tli second manager of die lewis campaign is a candidate for an important appoint : in it ai the liaids of governor dunne and ' ; is said to be pledged to do all in his power 1 to elect colonel lewis a report that secretary of slate bryan lit bis speech before the legislature to . i morrow or at soon other place during bis visit in this state will counsel the aids i j tracking of lewis in racnr of brim uartoli , i payne who i roger sullivan's candidate â– ; was scout i by mccarthy i lewis choice of voters uf course mr ijryun will be tree \<< j lake any lice be may choose said lc jcartby but we consider it unlikely that ' 1 he will advise the sidetracking of colonel lewis in favor of any other candidal e * whether avowed or secret Â» 7 â€¢ the democratic voter f Illinois have i made colonel lewis their candidate for i the long-term senatorship and it is tin 1 thinkable that any democratic leader ' however eminent in the party or iu state ' manship ill advise the ignoring of the popular verdict and the election of some body whom the people had no opportunity â– to indorse or reject at the polls â– every friend of colonel lewis and every democrat who believes in the role lot the people will oxpect the legislature ijto d its duty ibis week and elect colonel lewis to the senatorial seat which won iu a primary campaign umoui democrats of the state we : the senatorial primary for lewis binding on the general hssembbj as the i presidential primary was binding â€¢' the delegates to national convention sullivan backs payne it became know a barton payne was picked by llogei liviin for the long-term benarorsulp meeting held in the lioiel la sell â€¢ j in the chicagc v i-it of i 1 1 hnnn mccombs a few week ago at meetiu^y mccombs was an invitod flÃŸii^^m is that payne was continued or 4th page 4th column get out of the rut take ad vantage of the chances offered you in the want ad columns of the examiner every kdav *â€” pj â€” iociation of american adver e^lfltisers lias examined and certified to hjlp'tlie circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained in the association's report only are guaranteed association of american advertisers m s.o whitehall bldg _â– .. t city Chicago and vicinity fair monday followed by i jbis~~2to increasing cloudiness at s-^fcx^ms night tuesday unsettled and warmer ihr^v^sin it kange o'f temperatures fester \(( yÂ£=six v highest 31 Â» s^x enis^j lowest ie i y jby average u '